Manchester, England – On Saturday, May 25th, Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix won the 150m sprint at the Great City Games. Her time of 16.36 also set a new world record for the event. The competitors ran the 150m event on a straight track surface laid down on Deansgate, a major road in Manchester’s city centre.
Felix has admitted that she loves running outside the typical stadium environment. Her world record performance at the Great City Games on Saturday will only further reinforce that preference. While there had been some headwinds at the outdoor venue throughout the day, Felix’s 16.36 WR was recorded with a small tailwind of (+0.2 m/s). (more…)
The Confederação Brasileira de Atletismo Times Usain Bolt on Copacabana Beach.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – On Sunday March 31, the timing team affiliated with the Confederação Brasileira de Atletismo went to the famous Copacabana beach for a unique event. With an EtherLynx PRO as the primary timing camera, an EtherLynx Fusion for reverse angle images, ReacTime (mounted without the speaker units as audio was sent through the Public Address system), a Lynx electronic starting system, and multiple Microgate photocells, this event may have been taking place on a beach famous for its parties, but the technology in use was definitely serious. (more…)
Lillehammer, Norway– Birkebeinerrennet, the famous cross country skiing marathon in Norway, has integrated FinishLynx photo finish technology into the event’s sophisticated results system. The annual event is one of the oldest and most challenging races in the Worldloppet Federation. The 2013 event was held on March 13th and featured 16,500 of the world’s finest Nordic skiers. The Birkebeinerrennet course begins in Rena, Norway and continues 65 grueling kilometers (40.38 miles) to Lillehammer. (more…)
Albuquerque, NM – It was a record-setting weekend in Albuquerque as the nation’s finest track & field athletes competed in the 2013 USA Indoor Track & Field Championships from March 1 – 3, 2013. FinishLynx service provider Flash Results was on-site to provide fully automatic timing and results for the USATF event. The three-day meet was packed with great finishes, but it was record-breaking performances from Jenn Suhr, Mary Cain, Will Lear, and Ryan Whiting that stole the show.
World Record and a World Leader
Jenn Suhr set a new world record in the Pole Vault, and Ryan Whiting set a world’s best mark of the year in the Shot Put this weekend in Albuquerque. Suhr picked up her ninth American record and set the new women’s pole vault world record when she cleared 5.02m. Suhr’s successful 5.02m leap broke the previous world record of 5.01m set by Russian Yelena Isinbayeva in 2012. Suhr also became only the second woman in history to clear the 5-meter mark in a pole vault competition.
Shot-putter Ryan Whiting improved on his own world leading mark this past weekend. Whiting tossed 21.80m and edged out runner-up Cory Martin by 0.87m.
Record-Setting Indoor Milers
Will Leer and Mary Cain took home first-place finishes in the men’s and women’s miles this past weekend. Nike’s Will Leer ran the fastest ever indoor mile recorded “at-altitude,” finishing at 3:58.79. Leer beat New Balance’s Craig Miller by just 0.11, thanks a very strong final kick.
In the women’s mile, high school wunderkind Mary Cain took home the US Indoor Championship with a time of 5:05.68. The 16-year-old athlete has been on a hot streak all season. Cain is the first high school athlete to win an indoor title since Allyson Felix did it on 2003. Felix went on the win Olympic Gold later in her career. There is no doubt that Mary Cain has a promising career ahead.
World-Class FinishLynx Results
TV Commentators Ato Boldon & Dan O’Brien view FinishLynx results at the 2013 Indoor Championships
It was the seasoned timing team from Flash Results that produced the track and field results at the US Indoor Championships. Given the scale of the event, Flash Results spared no expense creating its FinishLynx configuration for the meet. The setup included:
Flash also used ResulTV to send results and photo-finish images directly to the television broadcast team. It’s an amazing thing to see all the moving pieces of a complex results network function smoothly behind the scenes. Congrats to everyone involved in another successful USA Indoor Championship meet.
February 17 – 22, 2013: The Short Track Speed Skating competition at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Brasov Romania featured FinishLynx Timing and Results production.
1000 m Ladies FINAL : With only 2/1,000th second between 1st and 2nd place it is always nice to have FinishLynx photo finish to make the call.
This marks a continuation of the long-standing endorsement and utilization of Lynx technology by ISU sanctioned events. The Winter European Youth Olympic Festival represents the top events for approximately 1,300 young athletes between the ages of 14 and 18. The competition is organised in two-year cycles, always in odd years, and is sponsored by the Association of European Olympic Committees (EOC). (more…)
Ever since Lynx partnered with the ARAF in July 2012, our Russian partners from Elastomer have been hard at work training with FinishLynx technology at events across the country. Well now we’re proud to announce that Elastomer has successfully completed its first large-scale IAAF athletics competition. The Russian crew provided timing and results for the 2013 IAAF Winter Permit Meeting this past weekend in Moscow, Russia. (more…)
Mary Cain – 16 years old sets a New American High School Record in 2 mile
FinishLynx technology provided timing and results for the New Balance Indoor meet on Saturday, February 2, 2013 at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston. The IAAF permit meet saw 16 year old Mary Cain run 9:38.68 for 2 miles – a performance that is the single best mark in US HS girl’s distance history. Cain broke the existing record (held by Melody Fairchild for over 20 years) by more than 17 seconds. (more…)
You can now use the mouse scroll wheel to scroll scrollable elements in FinishLynx (lists and the image windows). For simple lists, scrolling the mouse wheel will move the list up or down. In the image window, it will move the image backwards or forwards (left and right).
The image scrolling works with both EtherLynx images, and IdentiLynx video frames.
Aspect ratio control.
Note: All the changes in the presentation of the image of this feature are reversable, and do not affect the timing precision of the original image
The image above has a perfect height-to-width ratio (circles appear round)
Image is too narrow. You can now “stretch” images which appear compressed
Resulting Image on FinishLynx Screen, Bitmaps and Printouts
Image is too wide. You can now “compress” images which appear stretched.
Resulting Image on FinishLynx Screen, Bitmaps and Printouts
Official Timing & Results Provider of USA Track & Field
6/29/2012 – Lynx is proud to announce a new 4-year partnership with USA Track & Field. Lynx will now serve as the organization’s Official Timing & Results Provider. The agreement formalizes a longtime relationship between USATF and Lynx, which for more than 15 years has provided the timing systems for USA championship events.
Lynx will provide the timing and results production service for USA Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships through the 2016 USA Indoor Championships. The partnership ensures Lynx’s most technologically advanced equipment at USATF’s premier event properties and will expand live results at usatf.org. Read the full press release on usatf.org.
Lynx worked extensively with the Spanish company MSL to produce timing and results at the 2011 Pan-American Games in Guadalajara. This major international competition featured athletes from 42 countries competing in 36 sports, 40 disciplines and nearly 400 events.
FinishLynx cameras and other Lynx technology produced results at the Athletics, Cycling and Rowing venues.
6/29/2012 – Lynx is proud to announce a new 4-year partnership with USA Track & Field. Lynx will now serve as the organization’s Official Timing & Results Provider. The agreement formalizes a longtime relationship between USATF and Lynx, which for more than 15 years has provided the timing systems for USA championship events.